Man, 34, Facing Charge In Internet Proposition

COLCHESTER — Neighbors know Parker E. Elmore as a regular guy who works as an actuary and lives in a two-story colonial on a rural road with his wife and two small children.

But when Elmore, 34, was arrested by the FBI at a McDonald's in Colonie, N.Y., Wednesday night, agents said, he was a sexual predator there to have sex with a 13-year- old girl he had met in an Internet chat room.

What police said Elmore didn't know was the 13-year-old he been chatting with on America OnLine for the past month was really a seasoned police officer who was posing as a teenager.

Elmore was charged with traveling across state lines to engage in a sexual act with a minor. He was being held without bail at a federal prison facility in Albany until a hearing June 9 before a U.S. magistrate in New York.

``I'm just totally shocked,'' said one of Elmore's Van Cedarfield Road neighbors the past four years. Other neighbors remember him selling candy with his small daughter to raise money for soccer.

According to a police affidavit, Colonie Police Lt. Thomas Breslin was communicating in one of the Internet chat rooms when he was contacted by a person using the name ``Parker'' and the screen name ``Boxstr69.'' According to America OnLine records provided to police, ``Boxstr69'' belongs to Elmore, who lives at 94 Van Cedarfield Road.